PEDIATRICS Vol. 72 No. 1 July 1983, pp. 145
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Febrile Children

PAUL L. MCCARTHY MD1 and DOMENIC V. CICCHETTI PHD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510

In Reply.—

A high percentage (87%) of the 55 ill-appearing (scale score >10) febrile children in our study1 had at least one laboratory test performed; a lesser percentage (45%) of the 110 well-appearing (scale score le10) febrile children had at least one laboratory study performed. Nearly half (47%) of the total laboratory studies performed, however, were performed on well-appearing febrile children.

Despite a nearly equal number of total laboratory studies in well- and in ill-appearing febrile children, only three of 23 abnormal test results (p 805, table 2) occurred in well appearing children.